However, the grand jury did indict Adams on two felony counts of making false statements to an Athens-Clarke police detective investigating the 2-year-old case.

Prosecutors did not present the 2010 case to a Clarke County grand jury until Nov. 6.

Making a false statement to police is punishable by up to five years in prison.

Five days after Adams' indictment, a Superior Court judge granted his request to travel to Florida so he could spend Thanksgiving with family members, according to court records. He also will be allowed to go to Jacksonville for Christmas, according to the judge's bond order.

Authorities booked Adams into the Clarke County Jail at 11:17 a.m. Monday.

He was released that afternoon after posting a $10,000 bond.

Adams allegedly made false statements during the rape investigation when he denied he had sexual contact with his patient, and lied again when telling a detective he was never alone with the woman in his office after hours, according to the indictment.

Before being presented to the grand jury on Nov. 6, the case had languished in the district attorney's office since Adams' arrest in September 2010.

Attorneys representing the alleged victim in a $3 million lawsuit against Adams had pressed the district attorney's office to prosecute, and three months ago, even offered to make the woman available for grand jury testimony.

The prosecutor in the case, Assistant District Attorney David Lock, said this month he could not discuss grand jury proceedings. Among other things, Lock would not say if prosecutors had sought a rape charge, whether the alleged victim testified before the grand jury, or if jurors were given the option of indicting Adams on lesser assault charges.

Adams' attorney, Edward Tolley, consistently maintained his client denied sexually assaulting the alleged victim and said any sex was consensual.

Adams' former patient, who has since moved to Florida, filed suit in an attempt to obtain compensation for "permanent injury and emotional damage" caused by the alleged rape, according to a complaint filed in Clarke County Superior Court in June 2011.

The woman's attorneys contend that more evidence pointing toward the suspended doctor's guilt came out during divorce proceedings initiated by Adams' wife after her husband's arrest.

According to the lawsuit, the patient was referred to Adams in fall 2007 after she was treated at a local hospital for a possible infection and a bladder condition. The doctor diagnosed her as having severe kidney inflammation, and she was admitted to the hospital again in 2008 with acute abdominal pain, the lawsuit states. During follow-up care, Adams diagnosed the patient with other ailments that caused extreme pain, according to the lawsuit.

But the care the doctor provided was highly unorthodox, the lawsuit contends.

Adams made after-hours appointments, when no staff was present, to perform vaginal examinations while the patient was sedated, and personally drove the woman to pharmacies to fill prescriptions. The unusual office visits continued through summer 2009.

"On July 23, 2009, the sedation did not fully incapacitate (the patient), and she was able to appreciate what was occurring within the office during that after-hours appointment," the lawsuit states. "At that time, (she) observed defendant Adams sexually assaulting and molesting her."

The woman reported the assault the following day, when she was checked out by a sexual assault nurse examiner, Athens-Clarke police said.

Adams wasn't arrested until a year later - September 2010. That's because investigators weren't able to corroborate the rape complaint until they got DNA test results back from the backlogged Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime laboratory, according to police.